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Beware... [lest] your heart swell, and you forget G-d...
Deuteronomy 8:11-14
Asked Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov: The Torah repeatedly warns
against pride and greatly extols humility. Yet we do not find
it among the six hundred and thirteen divine commandments.
Why isn't it a mitzvah to be humble?
Answered he: If humility were a mitzvah, the ego of man would
count it among its achievements...
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